Travel, Communism, Attitude, Argument

TRAVEL

Thomas Fuller
Travel makes a wise man better but a fool worse.

COMMUNISM

Henry Louis Mencken
Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophesies.

ATTITUDE

Bertie Charles Forbes
It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.

ARGUMENT

Edward Gibbon
I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinion I have no respect.

Time, Capitalism, Advice, Age

TIME

Ralph Waldo Emerson
The years teach us much the days never knew.

CAPITALISM

Irving Fisher
Man is the most versatile of all forms of capital.

ADVICE

Marquis de La Grange
When we advise we are usually looking for an accomplice.

AGE

Dorothy Canfield Fisher
One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it’s such a nice change from being young.

Self, Business, Success, Women

SELF

Guy Finley
Any confidence you may have based on something outside yourself is also the basis of your self-doubt.

BUSINESS

Henry Ford
It is not the employer who pays wages – he only handles the money. It is the product that pays wages.

SUCCESS

John Gerhart
Success is when reality exceeds expectations.

WOMEN

Edna Ferver
A woman can look both moral and exciting – if she also looks as if it were quite a struggle.

Science, America, Striving, Vice

SCIENCE

Edgar Z. Friedenberg
Only science can hope to keep technology is some sort of moral order.

AMERICA

Nora Ephron
The big cities of America are becoming Third World countries.

STRIVING

Gustave Flaubert
Be regular and orderly in your daily affairs that you may be violent and original in your work.

VICE

William Cuthbert Faulkner
No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.